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Opensigle - Crossroads for Libraries, Research and Educational Institutions in the Field of Grey Literature Chapter 9 OpenSIGLE - Crossroads for Libraries, Research and Educational Institutions in the Field of Grey Literature Dominic J. Farace and Jerry Frantzen, Grey1et International, 1etherlands Christiane Stock and 1athalie Henrot, I1IST-C1RS, France Joachim Schöpfel, University of Lille 3, France 9.1 Introduction This chapter is based on a paper1 presented at the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature (GL10) in which GreyNet’s collections of conference preprints were made accessible via the OpenSIGLE Repository. OpenSIGLE offers a unique distribution channel for European grey literature with roots dating back a quarter century. In the first part of the chapter, the experience of INIST as service provider and GreyNet as data provider will be discussed including recent devel- opments. Later in the chapter, the draft of a project proposal called for in the final ses- sion of that conference will be elaborated. The proposal seeks to explore the ca- pacity required for the OpenSIGLE Repository to develop in multilateral and international cooperation in support of European research infrastructures commit- ted to the open access of grey literature collections and resources. Emphasis is placed on the involvement of libraries, research centers, and institutions of higher education, as well as, requirements for a grey literature network service to sustain further development, exploitation, and promotion of the OpenSIGLE Repository. 9.2 From SIGLE to OpenSIGLE: A Progress Report SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) was a unique mul- tidisciplinary database dedicated to grey literature. Up to 15 European partners participated in SIGLE, mostly national libraries or libraries aligned to well-known 1 Farace, D.J., J. Frantzen, C. Stock, N. Henrot, and J. Schöpfel (2009), OpenSIGLE, Home to GreyNet’s Research Community and its Grey Literature Collections: Initial Results and a Project Proposal. – In: The Grey Journal : An International journal on Grey Literature, vol. 5, no 1, Spring 2009. ISSN 1574-1796 DOI 10.1515/9783598441493.1.141, ©2017 Dominic J. Farace, Jerry Frantzen, Christiane Stock, Nathalie Henrot, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. 142 Dominic J. Farace et al. research institutes. Their principal goals were the centralized collection of scien- tific and technical reports, theses and other grey material and to facilitate access to these documents through an engagement for document delivery or loan. Created in 1980 and produced from 1984 onwards by EAGLE (European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation), the database was last available through STN Inter- national and on CD-ROM via Silverplatter/Ovid until it became dormant in 2005. INIST then decided to make the data publicly available on an open access plat- form. Details of the migration from SIGLE to OpenSIGLE have been presented at the GL8 Conference2 held in December 2006 (Schöpfel 2007). And in December 2007, the OpenSIGLE website3 went live. This chapter further discusses three related issues dealing with OpenSIGLE: (1) usage statistics covering two years of access to the repository, (2) a bilateral cooperative agreement with GreyNet, the Grey Literature Net- work Service, and (3) a project proposal exploring the capacity required for the OpenSIGLE Repository to develop in multilateral and international cooperation. 9.2.1 OpenSIGLE Traffic Report Usage information for a database is at all times interesting for the producer of the information. In this case an additional incentive was the fact that OpenSIGLE records, which migrated from the SIGLE database, had not been updated since 2005. Would then the move to an open access environment be at all “useful” for the grey literature community? The usage analysis is based on data obtained through phpMyVisites, an open source software for website statistics that works with a javascript image call. Only completely uploaded pages are counted and robots are excluded. The following data provide only a part of the information that can be obtained through phpMy- Visites. Other statistics based on server logs might however provide even higher figures. The first figure shows that the number of visits as well as the number of page views has increased steadily since the opening of the website in 2007. A first peak was reached in July 2008 following a press campaign in the middle of the French holidays. The result is both surprising and rewarding since visits usually decrease during summer months. The usage of OpenSIGLE continues to increase. In terms of page views and number of visits in which the average duration is 90 seconds, the increase is well over four times the amount in March 2010 compared to March 2009. Visits where 2 Schöpfel, J., C. Stock, and N. Henrot (2007), From SIGLE to OpenSIGLE and beyond: An in-depth look at Resource Migration in the European Context. – In: The Grey Journal : An International journal on Grey Literature, vol. 3, no 1, Spring 2007. ISSN 1574-1796 3 OpenSIGLE - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, http://opensigle.inist.fr/ OpenSIGLE - Crossroads for Libraries, Research and Educational Institutions only a single page is viewed represent a stable 50% average of the traffic to the site. These users accessed the database after searching via Google or Google Scholar. While in other cases, users may carry out extensive searches and view hundreds of web pages. 160000 140000 120000 100000 80000 60000 40000 OpenSIGLE traffic Nov 07 - Mar 10 20000 0 11_07 Figure 1: OpenSIGLE01_08 traffic report – number of visits and pages viewed 03_08 9.2.2 Geographic Origin of Visitors 143 05_08 The software used allows us to tries each month. The sum of 29 months worth of data 07shows_08 the United Kingdom in the lead, closely followed 09_08 EAGLE Countries by number of visits to the repository shows Germany, France, Italy, and Spain in their respective order. 11_08 on a given monthly top ten listing. It is only from Europe, but also from the United States, Canada, and since recently 01_09 Visits China and Australia. This clearly is an 03_09 presents an interest worldwide. 05_09 Pages monitor the origin of visitors for the top ten coun-07_09 by the United States. A gr 09_09 11_09 01_10 03_10 Countries in the long tail may not appear obvious that OpenSIGLE users are not indication that European grey literature ouping of other former 144 Dominic J. Farace et al. Origin of visits - Nov 07 - Mar 10 66164 70000 58493 60000 50000 43367 40000 30000 22323 20000 13842 7442 8251 10000 944 285 3366 3521 203 61 0 FR UK ES DE IT NL CZ USA CA China AU RO PL Figure 2: Origin of visitors to OpenSIGLE 9.2.3 Usage and Feedback Compared to other INIST websites and e-resources, statistics show that 16% to 19% of the users come from North America. OpenSIGLE is in third place among users from this continent preceded by the English version of INIST’s institutional website4 and IndicaSciences5 - an INIST product dedicated to research evaluation and indicators. INIST websites geared to a French speaking audience receive an average of 7% of the visits from North America. The analysis of web links as well as feedback through incoming messages re- veal that OpenSIGLE is often used in the biomedical and public health sectors. However, at present, statistics do not allow us to go into further detail regarding scientific domains. During the course of 2008, several requests were received from former users of the STN or Ovid versions of the SIGLE database dealing with complex search strategies. Such questions required another look into the limits of the Jakarta Lu- cene search engine implemented within DSpace, especially with regard to the length of the search query. It was discovered that Lucene allows for more possi- bilities than mentioned in the help provided by DSpace. Besides inquiries involv- ing search strategies, users were also interested in the download and export fea- tures of OpenSIGLE. One critical view of OpenSIGLE found on a blog6, mentions the absence of links to the full text of documents. Of course this is understandable given the fact that it was one of the very reasons why the SIGLE database was discontinued. 4 English version of INIST’s institutional website, http://international.inist.fr 5 INIST product dedicated to research evaluation and indicators, http://indicasciences.inist.fr 6 Critical view of OpenSIGLE found on a blog, http://healthinformaticist.wordpress.com/ 2008/08/28/does-opensigle-exist-for-its-own-sake/ OpenSIGLE - Crossroads for Libraries, Research and Educational Institutions 145 9.2.4 Promotional Activities Before the official announcement of the launch of OpenSIGLE, the project was presented at a DSpace meeting focused on the exchange of experiences among its users (Grésillaud and Stock, October 2007) 7. Shortly afterwards, and as a result of that meeting, visitors from Spain and Italy were observed on the OpenSIGLE website. In December 2007, INIST also focused attention on OpenSIGLE during the GL9 Information Walk-Thru at the Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature in Antwerp, Belgium8. In May 2008, a short presentation for the French public was given at I-expo (IT conference and exhibit) in Paris. And in July, INIST sent a press release to national and international lists and agencies i.e. Information World Review and Research Information. This no doubt resulted in the above mentioned peak of visits in the middle of summer. A brief message about OpenSIGLE was placed simultaneously on the French and international homepages of INIST. Since “news items” are normally less frequent during summer months, the message remained for a longer period of time on these WebPages. Today OpenSIGLE is indexed by Google and Google Scholar and included in the bookmarks of national libraries and research institutes. Following the creation of the WorldWideScience Alliance and website9 in June 2008, INIST (a partner in this Alliance) proposed to integrate OpenSIGLE into the WorldWideScience por- tal.
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